while rendering, i can't even move mouse

[nodar1978]

Hi guys

Some time ago started this problem with me.

I use max with vray, and during rendering pc is very slow, i hardly can move mouse.

PC is vey good, and was perfect until some time but now its getting this problem.

any ideas?

thank you in advance

[Chris MacDonald]

Nothing too unusual about this, the rendering is using 100% of your CPU, and probably a lot of ram too; leaving very little system resources for other things.

 

You can disable the render on one of the cores of your CPU to free it up for other things, if you want? Just right click 3ds max in the task manager, click "set affinity" and untick one of the CPU cores.

[nodar1978]

Chris

thanks a lot, i have this problem so long time and it works perfecty now.

thanks a lot for your help

[Krisztian Gulyas]

You can open task manager/processes, find 3dsmax, right-click and set priority to "below normal". 3ds Max will use 100% of your CPU (all cores, all ram), but when you want to do something else, it will automatically slow down the render a bit, but just so you can do other things on your pc without lagging, when you finish it, the render will you use 100% of your cpu/ram again.

[Scott Schroeder]

Why would you want to cripple your rendering power just to move your mouse? Makes no sense to me. If you are rendering, leave it alone and let your expensive computer actually do the work it was meant to do.

 

Why are you doing double duty anyways while you render? If you are testing and want to do double duty, maybe instead of taking way CPU power take a look at your settings in your render. None of my test render presets even come close to slowing down my computer. Final presets? Of course, depending on the scene. But when it is a final render, I set it to render and walk away.

[Nic H]

i always have mine at 'below nromal' pririty

i can do photoshop of basic fusion / internet at teh same time

[nodar1978]

Thanks a lot Krisztian and nicnic.

Scott thank you too for your attention. Instead to walk away during the rendering, i prefere to make myself busy with other staff, maybe small modeling task, or photoshop task, or internet, and if there is no second hardwere i prefere to one i have.

thanks to all of you, it helped me a lot

[heni30]

I have ALWAYS had 2 machines. The 2nd one is a backup as well. I've had power supplies go out, hard drives fail, spilled coffee on one frying the motherboard; you need a plan B especially in a crunch.